Chapter 117: Gathering (2nd Update)

Fang Yu was running fast.Racing all the way, fearing he’d be too slow and miss the assembly time.

And on this run, Fang Yu realized that Tianyuan Town was much more chaotic than he had thought.

After crossing a few streets, he could see thick black smoke billowing in the distance, signaling trouble somewhere.

Past another street, there were sounds of explosions and shouting from fighting on the other side.

It wasn’t the Lin Family’s men; it was some other faction fighting among themselves.

Fang Yu found it strange.

Wasn’t today supposed to be the demon gathering causing trouble? Why were humans also hacking at each other? What’s going on?

It was chaotic, extremely freaking chaotic.

It was as if pulling one thread caused the whole situation to unravel, with destruction and chaos erupting all over Tianyuan Town.

Or perhaps, from his perspective, this was just a small part of some larger scheme.

Fang Yu felt that the latter was more likely.

After all, their mission was simple: just to destroy the wheel dock.

What was the use of destroying a dock? To cut off the water route?

Wasn’t there also the Dock of a Thousand Cups in Tianyuan Town? Could that dock have also run into trouble?

Fang Yu had no idea.

He just felt that the demon circle he was in now seemed to have a pretty low status among demons.

"Help, help me!!"

When he crossed another street, there was an old man at the entrance of a shop, lying on the ground and gasping for help.

The voice was somewhat familiar.

Fang Yu stopped in his tracks and took a closer look.

Eh! Isn’t that Wu... who shared a cell with me...

Swoosh!

A flash of a sword.

Old Man Wu’s head rolled on the ground.

Fang Yu: ...

He looked up at the person, a brawny man.

"ptui—"

Feeling Fang Yu’s gaze, the brawny man spat on the corpse on the ground.

He slung the blood-stained sword over his shoulder, giving Fang Yu a cold look as if assessing the difference in strength between them.

Suddenly, the corners of the brawny man’s mouth curled up, and he charged towards Fang Yu with big strides.

Fang Yu: ...

Here comes someone.

Throw a punch.

Bang!!!alent activated.]

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Fang Yu: ?

When I use a question mark, it had better mean you have a problem, not me.

What’s the deal?

You think you can hack away at people without seeing their health bar?

Your granddaddy here has 800 health, you couldn’t hack through me even if I stood still and let you!

Ah—ptui—

Fang Yu went over to spit on the corpse, and then searched the body, surprisingly finding over ten pieces of Silver.

This made Fang Yu ecstatic.

That’s 8000 yuan!!

Looking at the street corner... well, just a few corpses.

Tried searching the other bodies.

Goodness me, nothing.

Fang Yu immediately understood, this damn brawny man was also here for the money!

Killing for loot!

No wonder he could find ten pieces of Silver; that was the loot from those corpses.

Goodness me, I’m impressed, truly impressed.

Killing and arson, fishing in troubled waters, aren’t you afraid of a demon lurking inside and killing you in return?

Look up again...

Swoosh—

Something leaped over the rooftop in front of him.

Upon closer inspection, it was a relatively small demon with a cat’s tail.

A badly wounded demon!

Fang Yu was instantly energized.

The Vertical-eyed Cat Demon, just then, glanced back at Fang Yu below on the street, and twitched its ear.

Without saying anything, it immediately leaped away across the rooftops.

"Wait up!"

A moving gift pack of experience points, don’t run away!!

Fang Yu’s shout was directly ignored by the Cat Demon.

Fang Yu recognized that the direction in which the Vertical-eyed Cat Demon was fleeing was the demons’ retreat gathering point!

Geez, could it be one of Yue Guang’s own people?

To be honest, Fang Yu didn’t know too many of the demons around Yue Guang.

This guy was very slippery, seemed to have an unexplained hostility toward him, and was very guarded.

"A big wounded experience gift pack, this is much more attractive than a wounded human."

With a push off his feet, Fang Yu also ran quickly toward the gathering point.

At the same time, noises faintly emanated from the street behind him.

"Quick, quick, quick! It fled in this direction!"

"Over here! The demon is over here!"

"Chase, chase, chase! Don’t let it get away!"

Goodness, does that Cat Demon have tails following it?

But indeed, you running on the street is one thing, but leaping from rooftop to rooftop, with such a conspicuous target, who else would they chase if not you.

No good, I must kill the Vertical-eyed Cat Demon before the others do!

The demon’s head must be mine!

Thinking this, Fang Yu sped up and charged forward.

It wasn’t until Fang Yu had been gone for a while that a beautiful figure appeared from the street where Fang Yu had just been.

If Fang Yu were here now, he would certainly recognize this person—it was none other than Shi Zhongmei, his senior sister from the martial arts school.

But at this moment, Zhong Mei was dumbstruck.

"Damn it! That Diao Deyi ran so fast! I, I lost him!"

"It should be in this direction, I guess..."

Zhong Mei became unsure.

But in fact, the direction she was tracking was spot on as if a blind cat had stumbled upon a dead mouse.

The Vertical-eyed Cat Demon weaved through the streets, leaping.

Rolling across rooftops, shifting its position nimbly.

Her movement technique was very agile.

Her slender figure gave her plenty of conveniences.

Even if occasionally cornered by humans, she could immediately dart into a house.

Nimbly moving inside the house, she would leap from a window to escape.

She had already teased and shaken off several groups of human pursuers.

The agreed-upon location in the plan was getting close.

But the Vertical-eyed Cat Demon couldn’t possibly bring the human tail to that place.

So, the Vertical-eyed Cat Demon took a detour again, at full speed, agility at its peak.

Although hit by arrows a few more times, worsening her injuries.

She still managed to shake off that group of pursuers with her superior agility brought by the Cat Demon lineage.

"Phew—"

The Vertical-eyed Cat Demon sighed in relief.

Most of the injuries on her body were sustained during the destruction mission.

Inflicted by those foolish Underworld fellows or members of great families.

As for the group of humans chasing after her later, they were all weaklings.

The damage they could cause her was limited.

But since she had already decided to retreat, she couldn’t get entangled with these people anymore.

After all, this was a human town. Once entangled ceaselessly,

humans would swarm from all directions like bugs and cockroaches, surrounding her from all sides, leaving her with no way out.

"Disgusting!"

A clear look of disgust flitted across the Vertical-eyed Cat Demon’s face.

After making sure she had shaken off all pursuers and she wasn’t being tracked, she headed straight for the agreed-upon retreat gathering point.

The Vertical-eyed Cat Demon was fast, and she reached the street of the agreed location in no time.

Standing atop a wall, she looked ahead.

But what she didn’t expect was.

At that crossroads, the intersection of four streets.

At that agreed point of demon retreat.

Someone was already standing there early on... a human.